Liveblogging "Make Me a Supermodel" (1.11): Unclothed Again (Naturally)

As we near the finish, Bravo is pulling out all the stops and stripping off all the manties for what promises to be the most revealing episode yet of the surprisingly engaging show. Now, before you argue that nude figure modeling and man-waxing have already amped the skin level on MMSM, just go ahead and take a peek at this preview clip, in which Alpha Himbo Perry actually has to tuck his meat and two veggies into his own yodeling cavern to get a shot. I rest my case.

When I joked at the start of the season that the show should be called Make Me a Supernaked Supermodel, I really had no idea that they would take things quite this far. What's next, Top Naked Chef? Clothing-optional Project Runway? If they try to pull this with Shear Genius, we'd better hope that looper with the garden shears doesn't make a return appearance.

Anyway, the big question as we go into tonight's final challenge is whether or not our boy Gay Ronnie will survive the Thunderdome once more and return victorious to Model Manor, leaving Shannon's still-warm corpse to be devoured off-camera by Nikki, Tyson, and the Wicked Stepsisters.

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11:00PM EDT: There's an ad for next week's reunion, and we're treated to pictures of a half-dozen people we forgot months ago. How boring is that going to be?!

Nikki compliments each of the models. She really does have a soft spot for Ronnie, and grins at him like a little brother or a petit for. She tells them that it's now up to America, and that they can leave the catwalk.

VOTE!

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The lines are open until 4AM EDT (not EST, Nikki - daylight savings, wut wut!). Ronnie's signoff is that he's so passionate for the industry and that he's worked for free. Not the most compelling of the four, but at this point who knows. We'll find out in two weeks! 

10:55PM EDT: The judges go out of their way to find goods and bads about all four of them. They all seem to agree that Ronnie isn't the best but that he'll make a lot of money. They pick on Perry's shoulders, making it sound like he's a mantis in a suit or something. Really? Meanwhile, Wicked Stepsister #1 would cast Ben in a fragrance ad tomorrow. What's the criterion for that, exactly? Does he smell good? 

In the end they show the four final challenge shots and agree that four great models made it to the finish. 

10:50PM EDT: Tyson says Ben has the best body up there, but they all think he's stiff, still. He thinks that Ronnie and Holly are fat. Okay, where's my gun...

Nikki asks Ronnie why he thinks that America keeps saving his ass. He thinks America knows he can grow. They ask Holly what she would do if Ronnie won, and she says she'd slit her wrists. Can we get that in writing? Oh, I kid, I don't mind her and think she could take this. Not that she will...

On to Perry, who is clearly the favorite because he's stunning and not afraid to tuck his junk for $100,000. Isn't that what modeling is all about? 

10:45PM EDT: The boys are modeling underwear and scarves. Two great tastes that taste great together! Holly has a hilarious Dita von Teese wig on.

For the next set, the boys are dressed up like schoolboys on Easter Sunday. Holly has a purple and magenta version of Christian's two-tone finale dress. It's hot.

Then the boys do black suits. What, is this a show for funeral directors? Ronnie says he struggled a little with the suit. They have Holly vamped up for the last look and she has a bit of Isabella Rossellini going on, doesn't she? 

10:39PM EDT: Christian loves Ben's symmetrical face and Perry's height and Holly's hair. He wishes she had more personality and were taller but he would probably book her.

Christian doesn't have much praise for Ronnie, but says that he has "dopey eyes" and that that's a good thing, apparently. (I can never remember!) He concludes that "people love Ronnie" and that "maybe it's all the gays that are loving him". Sure, and some crazy gay website is probably running "SAVE RONNIE!" campaigns whenever he's up for the vote too, right? These creative types and their imaginations!

Holy eff -- did we get through that entire segment without a single "fierce" or "tickedy-tack hot tranny mess"?! 

10:33PM EDT: The models are driving up Mulberry St. and they notice their images from the shoot blown up to huge poster-size in the window of a gallery. They're led inside and all the people they've worked with this season are inside hanging out. It's kinda sweet in a "if we bombed this building we'd cripple the industry that makes young girls and boys hate themselves" kind of way. 

The next morning, Perry runs into Ben and Ronnie's room and wakes them up. Ronnie says that he's still high from the night before. Whah? Bravo's got a pot budget?

Ben's worried that they'll have to runway naked, but Ronnie says they'll be going out in style.

They arrive at the catwalk and Nikki tells them that they'll have the assistance of none other than Christian Siriano, Project Runway winner extraordinaire.

Holly says she's gonna kill the catwalk "like it's a lazy squirrel." As opposed to an overachieving squirrel.

Christian's feedback to Ronnie is to "be more straight". He actually doesn't mean it as in "heterosexual", but it's kind of funny nonetheless. 

10:24PM EDT: The models' assignment is to be naked and photographed as one of the four elements. Holly isn't comfortable with being naked in front of the boys, and Ben isn't comfortable being naked, period.  

Perry has his something or other shaved ... we're left to guess. Ben is up first as air, and the photographer seems to like the masculine power that he's bringing. Ronnie definitely likes it, and says the pictures are "hot".  

Holly is next, for fire. They slap a baldcap on her and I'm thinking they might actually set her on fire and re-enact the climax of Candyman. But they don't, and her shoot looks kind of boring, actually. Afterward they set a mannequin's head on fire, and to me the mannequin has more personality in its expression.

Next up is Perry, as water. He has sharpened teeth and a big ice cube in his mouth, and they make him do a Jame Gumb tuck and with the shaved groin he looks horrifying. We get a genital-free full-frontal that is going to scar me for life. 

Perry seems unbothered by the fact that he's been photographed looking like a two-year-old girl, but the tattoo on his wrist that represents his cheating girlfriend is apparently really bugging him. Way to prioritize. We get a full ass shot of Perry as he walks off. Ouch!

Ronnie is, of course, earth, and they make him into a satyr kind of tree-nymph thing. The photog calls him "the god of the wood". Holly yells, "Ronnie, got wood"? Try the chicken, folks, she's here all week. 

10:10PM EDT: Tyson visits Model Manor, and oddly talks to himself while going up the stairs. He sits the models down and tells them that he has a very famous friend coming to visit them. He introduces Naomi Campbell, and all the models put their hands over their cell phones.

You know, I have to say that Naomi is much more pleasant than I was expecting. I guess I've only seen her when she's playing nice with Tyra.

Naomi goes through their books. She likes Holly's hair and thinks the shot of Perry dominating Casey is "saucy".  

After she leaves, Tyson camps it up, saying, "Stranjay, dahlings, stranjay!" I'm sorry, was that a Boomerang reference?!

10:07PM EDT: Meanwhile, Wicked Stepsibling #2 is on vacation, so Nikki, Tyson, and the other one get to have extra portions of downed model.

Back at Model Manor, Holly, Ben, and Perry are having the whiny conversation that we saw in the preview. When Ronnie returns, Holly is beyond cold. She's still upset because someone dropped a house on her sister. 

10:04PM EDT: Shannon is out! Ronnie is safe! They give one another a very chilly half-hug. Ronnie looks like he just dodged a meteor.

10:02PM EDT: Ooh! They used the Eric Bana GQ cover in the intro. I can go home now. 

Shannon's already playing the numbers game, noting that Ronnie has been in the bottom four times and she has never been. Ronnie and Ben are talking about how Ronnie doesn't even need to pack because there's no way he's going home. Ronnie even says in an interview that to think that he is going home would be a "slap in the face to America". Um, okay. Hubris much?

Meanwhile, Shannon notices that the boys have turned around all Holly's pictures in the Hall of Models. Heh.  

9:45PM EDT: Are we ready for all the pixellated pink bits? Anybody wanna place a bet as to whether our boy is going home?